Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obscene literature. On the floor Senators braced themselves for a stirring day. Stacked on the desk of Utah's tall, leathery-faced Reed Smoot were such volumes as David Herbert Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover,* George Moore's Story Teller's Holiday, Frank Harris's My Life and Loves, Honore de Balzac's Droll Tales, the Kama Sutra, Robert Burns's, unexpurgated Poems, Joseph Moncure March's The Wild Party, Casanova's Memoirs...
...eyes of Edward Laurence Doheny, 73, California oilman, were damp with grateful tears. His cheeks were pink with happy excitement. His back tingled pleasantly where his smart lawyer, Frank J. Hogan, had thumped him in high delight. "Thank you and God bless you!" he cried to the nine men and three women jurors who had just acquitted him of bribery, in the District of Columbia Supreme Court...
...group of CRIMSON editors were entertained for an hour yesterday afternoon by the unique story of Frank Fielding, Radio Keith Orpheum's traveling usher, who is on his feet all but two hours each day and is one of six survivors in the International Collegiate Endurance Contest. Clothed in a light silk shirt, and white duck trousers, with a blue sash about his waist, the 19-year old Californian student appeared at 14 Plympton Street and told of the gruelling grind which hope of sharing in a $70,000 award is inducing him to continue until April...
...Committee of Selection consisted of President Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore College, Professor Lafayette B. Mendel of Yale University, Professor Louise Pound of the University of Nebraska, Professor E. B. Wilson of the Harvard School of Public Health and President of the Social Science Research Council, and Professor F. J. E. Woodbridge of Columbia University...
...recent liquor poll at Yale demonstrates that the boy or girl from a temperate home has a poor chance of "keeping clean in such an infected environment" were made today in a letter to the Yale Daily News, conductor of the poll. The letter was sent by one Frank M. Gregg of Atlantic City...